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Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider
Virgin Media is ditching its email services and offering customers a window in which to download their data and move to another email provider.
Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials
Huawei has released the Watch D3, the third generation of its blood-pressure-measuring wearable, as the company continues plowing a relatively lonely furrow in cuff-based technology.
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery is preparing to offer a FOSS workplace suite to some 3,000 employees – but the Swiss Armed Forces are pushing ahead faster…
Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas
While OpenAI and Anthropic fight over whose models can escape their sandbox more alarmingly, Google’s DeepMind team has once again shown how machine learning can…
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic
In the dispiriting race to replace human store managers with AI, OpenAI has taken the lead, according to Andon Labs, a business that analyzes whether…
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge
The vulnpocalypse is upon us, dear reader. Microsoft delivered a record number of patches to address 974 CVEs in its own products this month, including…
Anthropic promised 20x more usage. Then developers hit a weekly ceiling.
Anthropic sells its top-tier Claude Max subscription with the promise of 20 times more usage than its $20-a-month Pro plan.
OpenAI’s Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack
A secret channel running through ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory instance allowed one account to send hidden tasks – such as retrieving email data from a…
Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter’s chamber of ads
Microsoft has pumped ads into the Windows Start menu and pushed users through setup screens promoting its services. Now it's bringing advertising to the Windows…
DeepSeek is hiring 150 engineers, and none of them will touch a model
Hundreds of thousands of AI agent sandboxes can already run concurrently on a single DeepSeek cluster.
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